From Malachi, LENR engineer extraordinaire:
Friday, after we made adjustments to the copper wire by threading it through the mica I put the reactor back together. To test whether it would continue to short or not, I ramped up the power to maximum while I video taped the reactor. It did short out. This was not because of the copper wire (the threading worked like a charm), it was because I had bumped one section of heater wire while I assembled the reactor so that it was too close to the copper wire. As it deformed during heat up, it moved closer and closer until it shorted. So, once again, I disassembled the reactor. To fix the issue, I rounded each section of wire between the mica fins out and away from the copper wire. I went through each section, between each fin to make sure the wires were as far away from each other as possible. Then, carefully, I assembled the reactor and vacuumed it down. Then I filled it with hydrogen and ramped the heat up as before. TADAH! No short...
Over the weekend we ran two calibration runs in pure hydrogen. One run with channel 1 (the NiCr wire) and the second with the Isotan 44 wire (untreated Celani wire).
We installed a new firmware version on Sunday. Everything works well in the new version.
An old problem was addressed and fixed on Monday. When either of the channels were turned in the off position, the computer would read large and inaccurate values for impedance because of the math involved. The solution was to wire the power supply such that there would always be current flowing through the channels and we would not read a false value. This also makes our live graphs more easy to read and eliminates the large and random spikes that might confuse the reader.
Monday night we began a calibration with both channel 1 and 2. The calibration was stopped around 90% completion after the GFCI outlet, that the power supply is on, tripped. We spent the next morning finding the source of the current leakage to ground and determined it to be the pressure sensor. A leak of roughly 10 mAmps was found and we came up with two options to fix the problem. One was to purchase a isolation transformer that would isolate any ground loops. This would cost around $175-200 to get a cheaper one. This would solve the issue of the GFCI tripping and could be a solution in the future. The second option was to switch the GFCI for a normal outlet. This cheaper and quicker option was the one we decided to implement.
The rest of Tuesday was spent discovering bugs in a new version of our software. This version is in a testing stage and not implemented on our Celani experiments, currently. Once the new version runs smooth enough, we will have a new update for the Celani experiment.
In other news, we are working hard to improve the web access to the data. We will make an announcement when it is ready. Also, we are getting ready to post the calibration schedule that will be your guide to seeing our progress step by step.
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At the moment work is being undertaken daily in US, UK, France, Italy, Switzerland and India on various aspects of the MFMP.
Reactors are in US and EU and are being prepared for our initial runs. This is painstaking as we need to get everything right.
You can see the Facilitators profiles (the Core Team) on that link on the site - in the coming weeks we aim to add profiles of 'Advisory Board' and 'Partner' participants.
thanks,
Milt Lee
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Thanks for the report.
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